Felix Boesler

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Felix Boesler (born March 21, 1901 in Leipzig ; † September 5, 1976 ) was a German economist . As a National Socialist expert on the connection between population and financial policy , he advised Heinrich Himmler from 1940 in his capacity as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum on all financial policy questions of the General Plan East .

Life

Boesler studied law and political science at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1925 in financial sciences . The subject of his dissertation was wealth tax in Germany. In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig with the publication Social Budget and Social Burden , in which he calculated the “dead costs” of social welfare , especially care for people identified as “genetically inferior”. In the same year his son Klaus-Achim Boesler , later professor of political geography in Bonn, was born. From 1939 to 1945 Felix Boesler taught as a professor at the University of Jena , where he represented the chair for economics and finance. He was director of the Institute for the History and Practice of Financial Law and was a member of the executive council of the Reich Association of German Financial Academies.

At the beginning of the winter semester of 1945, the last professors still at the university who were members of the NSDAP before April 1933 or who had “actively supported the NSDAP” were removed from the teaching staff. This also included Boesler, whose reason for dismissal was active commitment to the NSDAP.

After the Second World War , Boesler lived in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) or in the GDR until 1957 . He was a member of the East Berlin German Building Academy and wrote regional planning reports for the reconstruction of cities in the GDR. In 1954 he was co-author of a work on the " residential complex as a planning element in urban development", an urban planning concept for reconstruction in the GDR with semi-self-sufficient residential quarters made from standardized building types. From Boesler came u. a. the reference numbers for the supply facilities, which he presumably reused from his planning work for the annexation and settlement of the Warthegau .

In the Soviet occupation zone, his books Deutsche Finanzpolitik (Junker und Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1935) and Grundriß der Finanzwissenschaft (with Karl Theodor Eheberg ; Deichert, Leipzig 1939) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1957 he left the GDR for the Federal Republic, where he continued to plan infrastructure, initially for the city of Mainz. He worked with former colleagues from the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity (RKF). He was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he founded the Institute for Structural Research .

Fonts

  • Earnings value and common value in German wealth taxation . Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1925
  • Social budget and social burden . Parey, Berlin 1931.
  • with Kurt Leibbrand and Ernst May: The new Mainz. Mainz 1961

literature

  • Götz Aly, Susanne Heim: Pioneers of Extermination: Auschwitz and the German Plans for a New European Order . Hoffmann and Campe, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-455-08366-8 . (Short biography on p. 405 online )
  • Uwe Hoßfeld (Ed.): "Combative Science." Studies at the University of Jena during National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 .
  • Erhard Mäding: Professor Felix Boesler has passed away . In: Public Administration . Volume 30 (1977), ISSN  0029-859X , p. 96.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Boesler: Earning value and common value in German wealth taxation . Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1925.
  2. ^ Felix Boesler: Social budget and social burden . Parey, Berlin 1931.
  3. ^ Rainer Graafen: Klaus-Achim Boesler on his 65th birthday . In: ders. (Ed.): Spatial State Activity: Festschrift for Klaus-Achim Boesler on his 65th birthday (= Colloquium Geographicum 23). Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn 1997. pp. 9-11.
  4. ↑ Jörg Opitz: The law and economics faculty of the University of Jena and its teaching staff in the “Third Reich” . In: Uwe Hoßfeld (Ed.): "Combative Science" . Cologne 2003, p. 486, footnote 204.
  5. ↑ Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 , p. 68.
  6. ↑ With Boesler, Max Hildebert Boehm , Viktor Franz , Walter Grundmann , Gerhard Heberer , Richard Kolb , Bernhard Kummer , Johann von Leers , Wolf Meyer-Erlach , Otto zur Nedden and Falk Ruttke left because of NSDAP pollution .
    Manfred Heinemann: The reopening of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1945 . In: Dieter Voigt (ed.): GDR science in the conflict between research and state security . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08342-3 , p. 40.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-b.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-e.html
personal data
SURNAME Boesler, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1976